Learn To Play Guitar: Intro To Arpeggios Part 1

Danny Grady: This is introduction to arpeggios. Simply put an arpeggios when you are taking that to the chord you play it individually to come up with a melodic structure.

Arpeggios are great for coming up with parts for chord progressions on the spot, and they are also great to practice, to get you to start using your pinkie and your third finger in ways that you are not quite used to.

So in this lesson we are going to be taking a basic chord progression and learning how to construct very basic arpeggios and then constructing a part for that chord progression.

So we are going to start here with the G major scale. Everything we are going to be doing today is in the key of G. So I am going to start here with the G major scale. So start with the pinkie at the tenth fret of the fifth string, and then first finger on the seventh fret, fourth string. Third finger on the ninth fret, fourth string. Pinkie on the tenth fret, fourth string. First finger on the seventh fret of the third string. Third finger on the ninth fret of the third string. First finger on the seventh fret, second string. Second finger on the eighth fret of the second string. Pinkie on the tenth fret of the second string. First finger on the seventh fret of the first string. Second finger here on the eighth fret of the first string, and your pinkie here on the tenth fret.

I gave you those extra notes because we are going to need a couple over the scale or pass the first eight notes of the scale to finish constructing the arpeggios. That's what we will be working with today.

Male Speaker: This is 3 A.M. by Matchbox Twenty. This song is going to key at A flat major and standard tuning. I have a kapo at the first fret.

When you open first string in the third fret on the second string. So that's again.

The D chord here, and that's going to be the first finger at the sixth fret on the first string, third finger on the eight fret of the third string.


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